If there’s a Royal Commission on social care, what problem will it be set up to solve? Some possibilities: 1⃣ exposure to catastrophic costs 2⃣unmet need 3⃣workforce related 4⃣provider issues 5⃣ how to pay for reform 🧵

This is the heart of the ballgame for social care workforce recruitment & retention & something Ministers really need to think about - courtesy of Skills for Care & analysis commissioned for their Workforce Strategy.

Just over 200 people at the Homelessness series webinar this morning - on the #MCA and #homelessness - slides available, with a blog to follow kcl.ac.uk/events/thinkin…

New Minister of State ⁦Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov⁩ ⁦Jim McMahon MP⁩ announcing there will be a Royal Commission on Care. Welcome in some ways but surely there is enough information and conclusions in the past 13 Royal Commissions and reports to arrive at what to do!

Could you provide business support to a team of researchers aiming to improve health and care services in south London? Then join us as a business support administrator! Salary: £32,979 - £34,605 Closing date: 22 August 2024 Apply: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/093087-bu… King’s jobs

Following some discussion on here this week, you can read our protocol for identifying false participants - scroll to the bottom of this HSCWRU webpage: kcl.ac.uk/hscwru/research David Abbott Prof Ann-Marie Towers Dr Andrew Grundy PhD Solidarity is our only hope ✌☮🌹

"We know exactly what good care for older people looks like" says BGS President Adam Gordon MBE on BBC Breakfast this morning. Read our #BGSBlueprint to find out what good quality age-attuned integrated care for older people looks like here bgs.org.uk/Blueprint

After demise of #socialcare charging reform, extra cash for training is now scrapped. 'Reform takes another hit, says Vic Rayner 💚. 'Social care remains the poor relation to the NHS,' says Homecare Association. Goodwill towards new govt is evaporating rapidly. questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…

📷Are you interested in how movies and TV shows shape our understanding of #dementia? Do you live with dementia? Do you care for someone living with dementia? Join our study! Event in Swansea and Cardiff. CADR garychristopher Dementia Hwb Swansea Swansea University SwanseaCVS 🧡

Very excited and grateful to continue our work with the Nuffield Foundation. With an amazing team (Ben Goodair, Ole Helby Petersen, Prof Catherine Needham, Elle Carter), we will spend the next 2.5 years evaluating the impact of outsourcing care provision in England nuffieldfoundation.org/project/evalua…

📢Out now - our July newsletter including a study on improving #healthcare for #women + #babies when child protection is involved + news, events, blogs, resources and more: 👉mailchi.mp/3ca41a3e4767/a…

⁦ “social care services seem built around an imaginary 1950s extended family, who all live round the corner from each other and have a full-time housewife at their heart, free to pop in every lunchtime and cheerfully put a wash on.” ⁦Ageing Without Children⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New article by Dr Chloe Waterman & Jill Manthorpe. The 2018 James Lind alliance adult social work priority setting partnership report: Its use and engagement journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… HSCWRU

Anyone looking for a #qualitative #research job? HSCWRU is a great place to work.

Did you miss @HSCWRU's fab LGBTQ+ older adults in social care webinar on 15th July?? Luckily, you can watch it online youtu.be/bQeczoZttuo?si…. Enjoy :-) Dr Cat Forward

Join us online 11 sept 2-3pm for the launch of a new resource on LGBTQ+ inclusion in care homes! With a fantastic group of older LGBTQ+ people and people working in care, we have co-designed this free guide, full of practical tips. Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/circle-resou…

A little reminder that the Day Centre Resources Hub might be worth a visit. Read about it in the thread below. The most popular page to date summarises the research evidence, but there's lots more to peruse. arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/day-centre-res…. NIHR ARC South London HSCWRU #olderpeople #daycentre

How to use AI responsibly in #socialcare? We have been working on this question with people across social care for the last 6 months, turning into a sector movement. Read about and join our work👇 Digital Care Hub The Institute for Ethics in AI charitydigital.org.uk/essentials/bui…

Researcher wanting a new job? Like doing practical things for real people? Interested in continence care? Come to the lovely@hscwru team. 50% FTE but additional opportunities may become available. Deadline 8 Sept.

Fab opportunity - PhD to investigate geographical inequalities in access to services & amenities in later life, funded through The Dunhill Medical Trust Reimagine Ageing Doctoral Research Programme phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2035-h… . Great supervision team Nik Lomax Oliver Todd Academic Unit for Ageing and Stroke Research CDRC